2 edits | Can you get television without set-top box? What about HD? I was looking through a recent WOW! flier and noticed for HD channels it said that you have to have an HD TV and an HD receiver. Not an HD tuner, an HD receiver. I'm going to have several televisions hooked up in my house. I want to have my Ultra TV with DVR capability hooked up in my main family room and my master bedroom. Other rooms like the guest bedrooms, my study, the kitchen and the bathroom (yes, the bathroom!) I just want to hook up and get whatever I can get through my built-in HD tuner. From the sound of this though, I may not be able to get anything but SD channels even though all of my TVs have built-in HD tuners.
For those of you with WOW! service currently, is this actually the case or am I misunderstanding what they mean? When I see "tuner" I think of the tuner inside my TV. When I see "receiver", I think set-top box.
Thanks.
- Byron |
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Utica, MI | Re: Can you get television without sit-top box? What about HD? You'll get clear qam basic cable if your tv's have a clear qam tuner (most newer ones do). If your going to the trouble of getting ultra tv, you'll probably want to use it on more than 2 tv's... |
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| said by mix:You'll get clear qam basic cable if your tv's have a clear qam tuner (most newer ones do). If your going to the trouble of getting ultra tv, you'll probably want to use it on more than 2 tv's...
I'm not sure why. I'd just have to pay for yet another media player or whatever they call them to put on another tv that I'd probably rarely watch DVR or anything more than basic television from. The only other way to get what I'd want would be to pay for two HD DVRs, one for the master bedroom and one for the the family room. Those would cost more than Ultra TV for two TVs plus I wouldn't be able to watch the recorded shows from either TV.
That being said, your statement really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Maybe I'm missing something.
Thanks for clearing up about the clear qam basic cable though. I really appreciate it.
- Byron |
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mix
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Utica, MI | Makes about as much sense as the phrase "sit-top" you're saying? |
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You can get WOW's Ultra TV, and rent the equipment month to month.
Or, if you can wait a bit, you can get Ceton Corp's upcoming equivalent to that. Six tuner central unit, small remote viewing units. Just add cableCARD. cetoncorp.com
The Ceton Q/Echo setup is based on their current cableCARD tuner that many of use have built our own whole house DVRs around, using Windows Media Center and XBox extenders. Ceton is building their own boxes to sell, not rent, on the retail level.
The advantage is, you can buy the central unit and as many extenders as you want. You could buy the central unit by itself, which is far FAR superior to any standalone DVR that WOW has. (WOW's UltraTV requires that you rent both the central unit and at least one remote unit.) You can add extenders as needed. In your case, you could buy a couple extenders--one to stay in the bedroom, for example, and one to carry around the house to whatever temporary location you want. That's a nice flexibility.
And since you buy it, you don't have any extra costs associated with that flexibility. |
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| Thanks for the heads up on the Ceton equipment. It looks really promising. Depending on the price, that may be a great alternative.
- Byron |
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@wideopenwest.com | I have the Ultra tv with two media players. I also have all five tv's hooked up using coax and get all the channels except the signature ones using the Qam tuners. Only the local ones are in Hi Def using the tv tuners.
You wont get all that with Comcast or AT-T Uverse. |
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| said by dfs :I have the Ultra tv with two media players. I also have all five tv's hooked up using coax and get all the channels except the signature ones using the Qam tuners. Only the local ones are in Hi Def using the tv tuners.
You wont get all that with Comcast or AT-T Uverse.
That's a fact. WOW's handling of the digital transition has been, overall, far superior than I ever expected--and far superior to what T-W will be doing , no doubt. |
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Naperville, IL
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Re: Can you get television without set-top box? What about HD? said by bfollowell3:For those of you with WOW! service currently, is this actually the case or am I misunderstanding what they mean? When I see "tuner" I think of the tuner inside my TV. When I see "receiver", I think set-top box.
We broadcast all basic cable channels, as well as all local HD stations on ClearQAM, so a QAM tuner should be able to pick up any of those stations. We can not guarantee every QAM tuner will work perfectly though, there are tuners that don't pick up some of the channels.
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Dan Della Terza
WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone
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